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| Concrete cast on the building site is known as cast-in-place or in situ concrete. CIP concrete's desired final shape is limited by what costly necessary technological construction? |
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| A slump test is performed on fresh concrete to test what |
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| Surface texture of the exposed concrete |
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| For CIP concrete, the formwork material (timber, wood-based panel, plywood, hardboard, fibre-cement, steel, plastic, etc.) and its surface finish (rough, planed, smooth, plastic-coated etc.) determine what? |
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| Water, aggregate, Portland cement |
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| Select the three primary ingredients (binder, filler and reactor) commonly used to make concrete today. |
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| Which of the following occupancies has the highest floor live load |
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| Skyscrapers/long span roofs |
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| There are two buildings types almost exclusively constructed from steel, what are they? |
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| Which of the following lumber cross-sections is a dimension of lumber? |
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| The nominal height of a typical CMU is? |
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| Which of the following materials increases the mortar's compressive strength? |
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| "Along the grain" KIND OF |
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| Wood is stronger in which direction? |
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| Botanical characteristics |
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| The difference between softwoods and hardwoods is based on? |
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| Which of the following species of wood is a softwood? |
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| Which of the following mortar joint profiles should be specified for an exterior wall? |
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| Which of the following species of wood is naturally decay resistant? |
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| Which of the following wood species is a hardwood? |
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| Lacks precise properties of a manufactured product |
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| Since wood is a living organic material we use in building construction, what is one of the primary detriments it has compared to manufactured building materials? |
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| White spots in masonry walls |
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| Efflorescence in masonry refers to? |
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| Provide uniform drying and firing of bricks |
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| The primary reason for providing core holes in bricks is to? |
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| Lumber used for structural framing of buildings in North America is generally derived from? |
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| Each course consists of stretchers (long direction) |
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| The most commonly used mortar joint thickness is? |
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| In the 1950s, the British inventor Alastair Pilkington completely transformed the way in which glass was used in architecture through his development of what? |
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| Metal is one of the oldest materials to be manipulated by man, and has been used for its? |
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| What is the corrosion process that occurs when two unlike metals and with moisture present, create an electric current corroding the anode? |
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| From what material is aluminum refined? |
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| The largest disadvantage to plastics in building applications is that they can be destroyed by fire and may give off toxic gasses? |
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| A substantial amount of expansion and contraction |
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| Plastics typically have a high coefficient of thermal expansion, so construction details must allow for what due to temperature changes? |
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| The popularity of plastic is because of our ability to make complex shapes. How is this accomplished? |
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| What type of glass is often called toughened glass, is considered a type of safety glass. It is four to five times stronger than "normal" annealed glass, and when shattered, it breaks into many small, cubed fragments rather than dangerous shards? |
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| Reflectance (R), transmittance (T), and absorbency (A) |
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| When Light hits a piece of glass, some is reflected from the surface, some passes through, and some is absorbed in the glass. The measurement of these three properties are called what? |
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| The wavyness that can occur unintentionally in large metal sheets is known as what? |
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| What metal was one of the first ever used? |
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| Glass as a modern material is an excellent insulator for a buildings thermal performance? |
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| Glass is strongest under a tensile force? |
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| What is the difference between ferrous and non-ferrous metal? |
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| What type of plastic is flammable but self extinguishing? |
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| Durability, high performance, easy handling, low cost |
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| Plastics play an integral role in construction due to these four benefits? |
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| Slowly cooling a molten material into a solid state is known as what? |
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